Predictors of adolescent weight status and central obesity in rural South Africa

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1114-1122

  Kimani Murage, Elizabeth W ^a,b   Kahn, Kathleen ^a,c,d   Pettifor, John M ^e   Tollman, Stephen M ^a,c,d   Klipstein GrobusC H , Kerstin ^f   Norris, Shane A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Kenya)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Low to middle income countries; Obesity; Rural areas; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956093149     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980011000139     Document Type: Article

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